Three unrelated incidents in December 2021 demonstrated the vulnerability of our IT infrastructure and the need for us to act: the Log4j security vulnerability, some versions of the Exchange server (2016 and 2019) failed to deliver emails at the beginning of the year and the… Read More
All posts filed under “English language articles”
Time to start a new experiment: Use an automatic translation service to translate some of my posts with some significance beyond Germany into English language, while doing some minor editing after the initial translation. This is a first try. Let us see, how far this goes. As in the past the headline of those postings will be starting with [EN].
Call for Code: An example, how technology can play a role for social good (Laurent Sauveur from UN Human Rights Office)
A few days ago I had the pleasure to talk to Laurent Sauveur from the UN Human Rights Office at the We are Developers-Conference in Berlin. It was a real pleasure to let him describe, why the Human Rights Office is involved in the Call… Read More
Bookmark: IBM Preparing For The Next Chapter In Cloud | Seeking Alpha
Interesting analysis and summary on the strategy of IBM. My quote based on a discussion I had last week during Think at IBM on Open Source in German and European Government with Saskia Esken, Michael Seemann, Peter Ganten and Stephan Dörner (in German language). It… Read More
The Full Cut: My Interview with Richard Jefts from HCL Digital Solutions on the intended Transfer of Trade, the German market and the future of the IBM Collaboration Products
At #DNUG46 I had the pleasure to talk to Richard Jefts, Vice President & General Manager of Digital Solutions at HCL Technologies, about and the expected next steps of the Transfer of Trade the specifics of the German market and the importance of the German… Read More
„The Essentials“: My Interview with Richard Jefts from HCL Digital Solutions on the intended Transfer of Trade, the German market and the future of the IBM Collaboration Products
At #DNUG46 I had the pleasure to talk to Richard Jefts, Vice President & General Manager of Digital Solutions at HCL Technologies, about and the expected next steps of the Transfer of Trade the specifics of the German market and the importance of the German… Read More
[EN] German Regulators Order Facebook to Change Data Collection Practices
On Feb. 7, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO), the Bundeskartellamt, imposed far-reaching restrictions on Facebook’s processing of user data. The action followed several years of investigations and an announcement earlier in the year that such a decision would be coming. The FCO is Germany’s… Read More
Microsoft Cortana als Sprachassistent :: Wanted Dead or alive
Immer schön, wenn man einen Beitrag mit einer Referenz auf einen Rocksong starten kann. Diesmal ein Song von Bon Jovi: Wanted Dead or Alive. Produkte werden eingestellt, wenn sie nicht reüssieren. Hatten wir ja auch gerade bei meinem Arbeitgeber. Nun berichtet ZDNet, dass Microsoft seine… Read More
[EN] GDPR: Challenge or Opportunity? Change Direction or stay on target?
I have started again writing on/for CMSwire in English language. This is the orignal draft of my summary on our German GDPR discussion. The CMSwire article can be found here. Recently, a data glitch at Amazon caused other users‘ personal data to go „out of… Read More
Kurz zitiert: 2019 – @WildDueck erwartet den Aufstand der zornigen Jungen
Na, da zitiere ich doch mal zu Weihnachten den geschätzten Gunter Dueck – und habe so meine Zweifel bezüglich der zornigen Jungen … Das Jahr 2019 könnte eine Zeit werden, in der die Fronten der Bedenkenträger aufweichen. … Wir fürchten Gefahren, Ungewissheit und vor allem… Read More
[EN] Time to say goodbye: After the research of the NYT I have stopped using WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook
This is the updated and corrected version of my planned post. I am stopping to use Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. The original plan was to delete WhatsApp and Instagram from my devices, but still use Facebook, because I find a lot of friends there and… Read More